On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:42:49PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > Funny you should ask. I have an R500 and it works fine, excepting the > lack of ACPI support of course. The Fn-Mute key combo even works right > away, no configuring needed (magic!). It's super flimsy though, I've > had it's optical drive repaired twice and the DC in has come loose and > I'm terrified of bumping the screen (it's 4mm thick). It's not the > worst laptop I've heard of as far as heat goes but it definitely gets > up there--I can't really do CPU intensive things on it since it'll get > up to 95degC and hover there really quick. Wifi is wpi(4) and except > for one firmware glitch once, and sometimes things lagging out (seems > to be correlated with heat) until I reset the card, I've never had any > problems. I'm not sure how different the R600 is, though.
Hi Nick, Thanks for the detailed reply, very helpful. A work colleague used to fix these machines, he mentioned that you might want to upgrade the bios to 1.6 which adds ACPI support, also pre 1.6 the optical drive wouldn't park during emergency shutdowns which might explain why you have had to repair yours. Anyway thanks again, I'll probably go ahead and order the R600. Maybe I leave the cpu throttled if it gets too hot... Regards, Peter
